In 1868 and again in 1916, what was the Danish West Indies voted to leave Denmark and join the U.S., and the U.S. agreed the second time, in a territory now called the U.S. Virgin Islands. Nicholas ...
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Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini, or ...